User tracking

[Anon]

I need to track where users are going and whose links they are clicking (this is for a client, obviously). I have done this sort of thing with WebTrends, but I was hoping I could develop something simple with php. And my question is: I am not sure where to start.

Thanks,
DougRisk

[Anon]

are you just wanting to keep track of what pages within a site they are using and what external links they are clicking?

Do these stats need to be tied to a single user session? Or just generically across all visitors.

There are alot of ways to accomplish this, but I don't want to recommend something that's more complicated then your needs. 🙂

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"but I was hoping I could develop something simple with php."

So you want to build your own log analyzer? :-)

All webtrends does is read the logfile and find out which URL's each remote_addr visited, and then it sticks all those URL's together by linking the URL to the previous HTTP_REFERER.

Not a complex trick, but a lot of work.